Public Listening Session on President Obama's America's Great Outdoors Initiative
Focusing on the role of historic preservation
Representatives from DOI, USDA, and EPA, will be present to hear your thoughts and to participate in a conversation with you.
This event is free and open to the public and we will make every effort to accommodate everyone. To help with our planning, we encourage you to pre-register by Thursday, July 22. To pre-register, email to: Rosanne_Ruffo@nps.gov and provide your name, organization and primary area of interest:
• Connecting community-based historic preservation and recreation
• Job and volunteer opportunities in historic preservation and outdoor recreation
• Heritage education and other ways to engage Americans of all ages and origins in our history, culture,
and natural bounty
• Building upon State, local, private, and tribal priorities for historic preservation
• Historic preservation’s role in the America’s great outdoors initiative to develop a conservation and
recreation agenda
To pre-register, send an email to Rosanne_Ruffo@nps.gov and provide your name, organization and primary area of interest from the list above.
Drew Hemment from FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster visits Philadelphia!
Drew Hemment from FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster visits Philadelphia!
Dr. Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher based in Manchester England. Recent projects have been on open data, remote collaboration, new mobilities and environmental mass observation. He is Director and Founder of FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic), and is Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster at Lancaster University.
FutureEverything is an art, technology and social innovation organization that runs innovation labs and an annual festival of art, music and ideas. It is recognized around the world for leading pioneering projects and important debates on innovation, technology, art, society and the environment.
FutureEverything is an innovation incubator with a long history of creative leadership in areas such as mobile and locative arts, social media, & the environment — more do tank than think tank. Winner of the prestigious Lever Prize 2010, Shortlisted for the Arts & Business Award 2010 and the Big Chip Award 2010, Honorary Mention for Director at Prix Ars Electronica 2008.
The FutureEverything Festival (formerly Futuresonic, est. 1995) is a crucible that allows artists, technologists and future-thinkers to share, innovate and bring the future into the present. Attended by 75,000 people, it is completely unique, bringing together world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music program, and visionary thinkers from around the world. FutureEverything 2011 will take place 11-14 May 2011 in Manchester England and internationally through the GloNet, or Globally Networked Event.
The FutureEverything Conference is the place to go each year for the important international debates in the field, bringing 500 opinion formers, futurologists, researchers, artists, technologists and scientists together to explore the latest upgrade affecting today’s digital culture.
Inside the Curator's Mind: A discussion with the Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michael Taylor
Inside the Curator's Mind:
A discussion with The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michael Taylor
Join us as we welcome The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michael Taylor. Mr. Taylor will discuss how the museum selects, organizes and promotes blockbuster art exhibitions designed to attract an international audience.
Room # 108 is adjacent to the Home Page Café. Those younger than 55 are welcome, this hour long program is free and no pre-registration is required.
Desert Jewels: Young Friends Rodin Garden Party
The Young Friends Rodin Garden Party is an annual fundraising event at which the Young Friends bid farewell to summer and look forward to fall! With the Rodin Museum’s garden undergoing rejuvenation, we’ll be traveling up the Parkway to the Perelman Building for our favorite fundraiser of the season.
Get ready to join 400 other young professionals to mix, mingle, and toast our worthy mission in the Skylit Atrium! Funds raised through this event support the Young Friends’ mission of art acquisitions, conservation, and preservation of works in the collections, as well as educational and outreach programming.
VIP tickets available.
MANNA Summer Auction
MANNA’s Summer Auction is a special online-only benefit event that will contribute to MANNA. Auction items range from fine art to gift certificates and the proceeds will go to MANNA in order to support nutrition programs and education for their clients. MANNA’s exclusive Summer Auction will offer more than 60 distinct pieces of art donated by local Philadelphian artists as well as nationally and internationally known artists and regional businesses.
The bidding will begin on Friday, July 9, 2010 and will close on Friday July 23, 2010 at 8:00 PM. Online bidding can be accessed through http://www.mannapa.org/mannaevents/Summer_Auction or contact Kara Casey (kcasey@mannapa.org or call 215-496-2622 ex 136) for more information. You can purchase the item right away at a set price without waiting for the auction to end by using the Buy It Now feature. The online auction will close at 8:00 PM on July 23, 2010. For more information visit www.mannapa.org.
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